Vandals

1. A people of northern Europe , known for their cruelty and destructiveness, who invaded the Roman Empire and plundered Rome itself in the fifth century.

Notes

The term vandalism , meaning wanton destructiveness, comes from the name of the Vandals.

Example Sentences

Security guards have also been posted to add some muscle (but this has done little to deter vandals in past years).

From The Daily Beast

Looters and vandals damaged more than a dozen stores and businesses in Oakland, Calif., news reports said.

From The Daily Beast

Vandals have defaced them with red paint splotches that look like bullet holes oozing with blood.

From The Daily Beast

Photographer Kurt Wenner captures these ruins before vandals erase them completely.

From The Daily Beast

But there is a strong resolve to vote despite the risk, a fierce determination to vanquish the Vandals.

From The Daily Beast

On the 15 th December Belisarius met the Vandals in battle-array.

From Project Gutenberg

The first of the Teutonic states to fall was the kingdom of the Vandals.

From Project Gutenberg

These vandals, desirous of making a little money, were in the habit of tearing out leaves from some of the MSS.

From Project Gutenberg

Then take the gradual destruction of the building by Goths and Vandals, and by the people of Rome themselves.

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The Goths and Vandals entertained the opinion that the first man and woman were made of an ash-tree.

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